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What a find !

Bajame - 10-23-2013 at 09:19 PM

What is the most interesting thing you have found on your desert hikes? :bounce:

motoged - 10-23-2013 at 09:29 PM

1) Peace of Mind.....different parts of desert

2) 20 million year old great white sharks teeth just north of Santa Rosalia

Barry A. - 10-23-2013 at 09:51 PM

An 80 lb. lead "pig" with the words BROKEN HILL stamped in it, and with a seemingly very old goldish patina on the exposed side---------it was almost completely buried with only the patina side exposed to the weather.

The only reference to BROKEN HILL I am aware of is the Australian mining district of that name which typically produced a mixed silver / lead product. I am guessing that I am rich, but have never had it appraised. :lol:

Barry

chuckie - 10-24-2013 at 05:20 AM

In the 1950's I found a Spanish Helmet and Breastplate in the the desert south of Jacumba...Donated them to a museum in San Diego....

Not in Baja but ....

durrelllrobert - 10-24-2013 at 08:58 AM

in the Mojave dessert near Randsburg, CA I found a rusty double barrel shot gun WITH BOTH BARRELS SQUASHED FLAT. Still wonder why.

Udo - 10-24-2013 at 09:56 AM

I found an old sealed EPIRB in Malarrimo beach a few years ago.

motoged - 10-24-2013 at 10:11 AM

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Originally posted by Udo
I found an old sealed EPIRB in Malarrimo beach a few years ago.



What's that?

LancairDriver - 10-24-2013 at 10:17 AM

EPIRB is an emergency gps locator set off on contact with water. Required Coast Guard safety device on fishing vessels.

EPIRB

captkw - 10-24-2013 at 10:25 AM

A lot of the older units were manual...as in you had to flip a switch that was under a cover and the nell ones us a different freq..I the old ones were 121.5 mhz....so that planes could lolcat you also...the new ones are 406 MHz and talk to satalites....had it wrong there for a sec...

[Edited on 10-24-2013 by captkw]

bajaguy - 10-24-2013 at 10:28 AM

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Originally posted by motoged
Quote:
Originally posted by Udo
I found an old sealed EPIRB in Malarrimo beach a few years ago.



What's that?





Similar to an ELT on an aircraft

BajaRat - 10-24-2013 at 10:37 AM

Baja California King snakes, beautiful creatures

sancho - 10-24-2013 at 10:47 AM

Anyone ever poke around with a metal detector?
I suppose they MAY be illegal to some you run across

bufeo - 10-24-2013 at 12:46 PM

In 1990 my wife found a 50-centavo silver coin minted in 1866 (during Maxmilian's short stay in Mexico) in good condition.

Today's value ~$200.00.

She also found a disassembled AR-15 in 1988.

We kept the coin; I couldn't get rid of the weapon fast enough—after I'd wiped it clean of fingerprints, of course.

Allen R.

Bajame - 10-24-2013 at 09:12 PM

Yes , I found a few coins here in San Ignacio and they said that they were used for a short time and are worthless now .

CortezBlue - 10-24-2013 at 09:19 PM

A horse with no name

David K - 10-24-2013 at 09:56 PM

Oh wow, where do I begin??? Baja is a land of wonder and adventure... Finding petroglyphs that were unknown to me, and a 'lost mission' come to mind...! Seeing the bighorn sheep near Mission Santa Maria was special, too.

'Petroglyph Park', east of El Socorro, 2005:


Near Bahia Las Animas: 1966 & 2009:



Near Mission Santa Maria, 2007:


[Edited on 10-28-2013 by David K]

Bajame - 10-25-2013 at 10:31 AM

Found a Blue footed Booby and it let me take an upclose picture of it.

Bajame - 10-25-2013 at 10:34 AM

Also found a burro that admitted to being one, that was a great find! . Plus a 5 point stag that had been hit by a car near san Ignacio.

..one man's trash

EdZeranski - 10-26-2013 at 08:24 PM

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Originally posted by Bajame
What is the most interesting thing you have found on your desert hikes? :bounce:


My wife stopped to pick up some broken beer bottles on the beach and found a gold centenario with the trash. I guess good karma for picking up the beach.
It looked like the coin had been part of a necklace that had broken.
EdZ

hold your(their?) water

EdZeranski - 10-26-2013 at 08:44 PM

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Originally posted by chuckie
In the 1950's I found a Spanish Helmet and Breastplate in the the desert south of Jacumba...Donated them to a museum in San Diego....


North of there in Anza Borrego's Pinyon wash, 1968, a friend and I found a rock cairn with three intact ollas. We didn't touch them, afraid they'd break, but walked out backwards taking pictures with an Kodak Instamatic.....waaaaay before GPS. Actually had a hard getting the Rangers interested. Also have a small collection of 50 cal bullets from WWII aircraft training, mostly from just north of Dos Cabezas.

EdZ

55steve - 10-26-2013 at 08:50 PM

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Originally posted by EdZeranski
Quote:
Originally posted by chuckie
In the 1950's I found a Spanish Helmet and Breastplate in the the desert south of Jacumba...Donated them to a museum in San Diego....


North of there in Anza Borrego's Pinyon wash, 1968, a friend and I found a rock cairn with three intact ollas. We didn't touch them, afraid they'd break, but walked out backwards taking pictures with an Kodak Instamatic.....waaaaay before GPS. Actually had a hard getting the Rangers interested. Also have a small collection of 50 cal bullets from WWII aircraft training, mostly from just north of Dos Cabezas.

EdZ


Same area - came across one huarache sandal with the foot bones still in it - it was wrapped around a bush like a flash flood had deposited it there. Kinda sad when you think about it.

El mummy

EdZeranski - 10-27-2013 at 06:11 PM

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have a small collection of 50 cal bullets from WWII aircraft training, mostly from just north of Dos Cabezas.
Same area - came across one huarache sandal with the foot bones still in it - it was wrapped around a bush like a flash flood had deposited it there. Kinda sad when you think about it.


When we had a place south and east of Agua Caliente' above Canebreak, we found a couple of bodies every year. \\\EdZ

55steve - 10-27-2013 at 06:21 PM

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Originally posted by EdZeranski
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have a small collection of 50 cal bullets from WWII aircraft training, mostly from just north of Dos Cabezas.
Same area - came across one huarache sandal with the foot bones still in it - it was wrapped around a bush like a flash flood had deposited it there. Kinda sad when you think about it.


When we had a place south and east of Agua Caliente' above Canebreak, we found a couple of bodies every year. \\\EdZ


Yep, same here - I just didn't want to gross everyone out. The now defunct Burro Bend Cafe in Ocotillo Wells had pics of the finds on the walls.

Desert Aluminum and Titanium

bajaguy - 10-27-2013 at 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by EdZeranski
.......a small collection of 50 cal bullets from WWII aircraft training, mostly from just north of Dos Cabezas.EdZ





Aluminum - Have found several WWII and Korean war aircraft crash sites in northern and central Nevada. Most interesting was the crash site of B-17B s/n 38-216 which crashed on February 6th, 1941....10 months before the start of WWII.

Titanium - Locatd the 1967 crash site of an SR-71A (Blackbird), s/n 61-7965 east of Lovelock, NV

Barry A. - 10-27-2013 at 08:11 PM

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Originally posted by bajaguy
Quote:
Originally posted by EdZeranski
.......a small collection of 50 cal bullets from WWII aircraft training, mostly from just north of Dos Cabezas.EdZ





Aluminum - Have found several WWII and Korean war aircraft crash sites in northern and central Nevada. Most interesting was the crash site of B-17B s/n 38-216 which crashed on February 6th, 1941....10 months before the start of WWII.

Titanium - Locatd the 1967 crash site of an SR-71A (Blackbird), s/n 61-7965 east of Lovelock, NV


Wow, that's exciting and incredible!!!! What great finds!!!

Barry

bajaguy - 10-27-2013 at 08:34 PM

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Originally posted by Barry A.

Wow, that's exciting and incredible!!!! What great finds!!!

Barry





Barry, with some simple research, you can find them:

http://joeidoni.smugmug.com/Aircraft-Crash-Sites

http://www.accident-report.com/world/namerica/US/CA7.html

24baja - 10-27-2013 at 08:39 PM

A bad sunburn brought on by drinking to many beers and forgetting what i was doing.....with the sunscreen.

Mexitron - 10-27-2013 at 10:18 PM

A friend was with us on a trip into the Seven Sisters...he went hiking to the next point down from camp and found a kilo of pot together with two rusted Chinese AK-47s and two rainjackets. Something was supposed to go down and didn't, evidently. And if you're wondering---he buried the pot. :rolleyes:

tripledigitken - 10-27-2013 at 10:36 PM

A bee hive in Palm Canyon, Borrego Springs.


nandopedal - 10-28-2013 at 07:25 AM

While mountain biking/hiking (exploratory ride) a titanium airplane engine just East of Poway Open Space Preserve and it is still there.

mulegemichael - 10-28-2013 at 08:49 AM

we found two BALES of plastic wrapped pot that had washed up on the beach just south of hotel punta colorada on christmas eve...merry christmas!!...took a couple of us to drag them up above the water line.

Thermal expansion of titanium

durrelllrobert - 10-28-2013 at 09:04 AM

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Titanium - Locatd the 1967 crash site of an SR-71A (Blackbird), s/n 61-7965 east of Lovelock, NV


C.I.A. created several coverup companies which were used to purchase the required Titanium for the construction of Blackbirds from Soviet Union – quite ironic considering a lot of missions consisted of relaying intel about the country that the materials were purchased from.
iliketowastemytime.com/facts-you-didnt-know-about-sr71-blackbird‎

According to Lockheed Martin, 93 percent of the airplane is made of titanium alloy. Titanium expands as it is heated. To keep the airplane from crunching up like a soda can when it was flying at high speeds, the designers left gaps between its body panels. Consequently, fuel, stored in the airplane's body, leaked out onto the runway before take off. Once airborne and warmed up by friction, the titanium would expand, the gaps would seal and the Blackbird would be refueled before leaving on its mission.

Heat generated during flight can reach over 1000 degrees F. temperatures, with an average temperature of over 600 degrees, that causes the fuselage to expand in flight from 3 to 4 inches in length.